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President Obama Defends Public Option

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“[President Obama] brushed aside concerns that a government plan would drive private insurers out of business. ‘If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care, if they tell us that they’re offering a good deal, then why is it that the government — which they say can’t run anything — suddenly is going to drive them out of business?’ Mr. Obama said. ‘That’s not logical.’” (New York Times [1], Wednesday)

Who says the President of the United States has to know anything about basic economics?

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Health Care Is Worse Here than Elsewhere? It Just Ain’t So! [2]” by David R. Henderson


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[1] New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/health/policy/24health.html?ref=us

[2] Health Care Is Worse Here than Elsewhere? It Just Ain’t So!: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/departments/health-care-is-worse-here-than-elsewhere-it-just-aint-so/

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